Inadequacy of bedside clinical indicators in identifying significant intracranial injury in trauma patients

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 359-363

  Todd Harad, F ^a   Kerstein, Morris D ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

BRAIN INJURIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0026538277     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-199203000-00014     Document Type: Article

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